Publications

“Georg Simmel and the Foundations of Social Science”
2026. Journal of Classical Sociology.
DOI: 10.1177/1468795X261447122.

“When Yellowstone Became A Place”
2026. Front Porch Republic. (March 11)

“Schoolyard Lessons and Friendship: What a Victorian Novel Can Teach Us about Civil Order”
2025. Front Porch Republic. (March 24)

“Reintroducing Ferdinand Tönnies”
2024. Pp. 130-132 in Cosmos + Taxis Vol. 12(7-8). 

“Science as a Culture”
2022. Pp. 151-164 in The Anthem Companion to Robert K. Merton. Charles Crothers and Lorenzo Sabetta (Eds.). Anthem: London. ISBN: 978-1-83998-116-6.

“Values in Science”
2022. Pp. 935-940 in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. James Mattingly (Ed.) Sage: London. ISBN: 978-1483347721.

“Oliver Benoit on Grenadian ‘Reasons of State’”
2021. Now Grenada (January 28)

“Iconic Nature, Material Symbolism, and American Nationalism: Thomas Moran and a Vista on Yellowstone”
2020. Research Handbook on Nationalism. Liah Greenfeld and Zeying Wu (Eds.) Oxford: Edward Elgar, pp. 137-147.
ISBN: 9781789903430.
DOI: 10.4337/9781789903447.00020.

“Constants in History and Sociology”
2019. Sociology Lens/The Journal of Historical Sociology
Vol. 32(1): e11-e14.
DOI: 10.1111/johs.12231.

“The Weberian Presuppositional Analytic”
2019. Sociological Theory Vol. 37(4): 363-380.
DOI: 10.1177/07352751198882.

“Durkheim and the Nation”
2019. The Turkish Journal of Sociology (İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi) Vol. 39: 41-64.
DOI: 10.26650/SJ.2019.39.1.0013.

“Materiality, Iconic Nature, and Albert Bierstadt’s ‘Great Pictures’”
2016. American Journal of Cultural Sociology Vol. 4(3): 359-384. DOI:10.1057/s41290-016-0011-9.

“The Value(s) of Nature”
2016. American Journal of Cultural Sociology Vol. 4(2): 228-239. 
DOI: 10.1057/ajcs.2016.3.

“Émile Durkheim”
2015. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. Anthony Smith, John Stone, Rutledge Dennis, et al. (Eds.). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. DOI:10.1002/9781118663202.wberen023.

“On the Centrality of Action: Social Science, Historical Logics, and Max Weber’s Legacy”
2015. Sociology Lens/The Journal of Historical Sociology
Vol. 28(4): 523-547.
DOI:10.1111/johs.12081. 

“This is Social Science: A ‘Patterned Activity’ Oriented to Attaining Objective Knowledge of Human Society”
2014. Journal of Classical Sociology Vol. 14(4): 341-362. DOI:10.1177/1468795X13495124.

“Durkheim’s Sui Generis Reality and the Central Subject Matter of Social Science”
2013. Current Perspectives in Social Theory Vol. 31: 161-175.
DOI: 10.1108/S0278-1204(2013)0000031012.

“Nationalism as the Cultural Foundation of Modern Experience”
2010. Liah Greenfeld, co-author. Handbook of Cultural Sociology. John Hall, Laura Grindstaff, and Ming-Cheng Lo (Eds.).
New York: Routledge, p. 526-534.

“Politics as a Cultural Phenomenon”
2010. Liah Greenfeld, co-author. Handbook of Politics: State and Society in Global Perspective. Craig Jenkins and Kevin Leicht (Eds.) New York: Springer, p. 407-422.